Durant els segles XIV i XV Barcelona fou un espai privilegiat en el Mediterrani per promoure una intensa creativitat que quedà plasmada en l?arquitectura, ...
Building on the success of its second edition, the third edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader provides a generous selection of classic and ...
Integrated Water Resource Planning provides practical, evidence-based guidance on water resource planning. In a time of heightened awareness of ecosystem needs, climate change, and ...
In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. ...
People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship ...
Seventeenth-century Europe saw a fruitful creative exchange between the arts and contemporaneous scientific thought. "Mapping Spaces" traces the multifaceted dimensions of this exchange with ...
Andreas Schlüter (1659-1714) was a well-known Baroque sculptor and the architect behind some of Berlin's most famous buildings, from the legendary Amber Room to ...
Laba, or Laboratory Basel, was founded in 2005 as a satellite studio affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Swiss architect Harry Gugger ...
Taking the natural world as her inspiration, Alexandra Hendrikoff created her Noetic Handicraft series, which is made up of stunning free-standing sculptures resembling cocoons ...
The Dissertation is one of the most demanding yet potentially most stimulating components of an architectural course. This classic text provides a complete guide ...
By 1900 the British had undertaken various types of urban planning in their colonial territories, but the early twentieth century brought new ideas and ...
The V&A's internationally important collection of Dutch and Flemish masterpiece drawings includes individual works by Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck, as well as extensive ...
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune ...
Displacement has traditionally been conceptualized as a phenomenon that results from conflict or other disruptions in developing or unstable countries. Hurricane Katrina shattered this ...
Some cities avoid change. Others accept it. Atlanta pursues it. More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil ...
